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Barometric Pressure: When did it become MB's?
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Posted on 03/14/2014 6:37:20 PM PDT by PROCON
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Just curious if other FReepers have noticed this phenomenom, BTW, I live in Oregon.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:37:20 PM PDT
by
PROCON
To: PROCON
Millibars are SI units.
1 millibar = 0.0295333727 inches of mercury.
Your old one is in inches of mercury. SI is a little more accurate but overall functionally the same.
I haven’t noticed the weather idiots talking about millibars but then again once they signed on to AGW I stopped listening to them and now read my own maps from intellicast.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:41:54 PM PDT
by
Ouderkirk
(To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
To: PROCON
National Weather Service still reports barometric pressure in inches.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:42:09 PM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: PROCON
The weather report has been dumbed-down, just like most of the news.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:42:45 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: PROCON
BTW, it’s 1056 millibars here today, whatever that means...
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:43:14 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Those who are capable of Tyranny are capable of Deceit to sustain it.)
To: PROCON
I was brought up on both.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:43:44 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: PROCON
Good evening, Army Bro! I have no clue what a millibar is - I know what an inch is. I think this change occurred at the beginning of the Clinton Administration - when just about everything else in our Beloved Nation went to Hell.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:44:29 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Mlichael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: PROCON
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:44:38 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: Ouderkirk
Millibars are SI units. Do you mean metric units?
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:46:39 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
To: ConorMacNessa
Navy Bro, the Clintonista regime definately tried to dumb us down, didn’t work on us FReepers :-)
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:47:59 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Those who are capable of Tyranny are capable of Deceit to sustain it.)
To: Fiji Hill
SI = System International
Le Système international d’unités
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:50:55 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: PROCON
I measure everything in my own unique way.
To: ConorMacNessa; PROCON
Millie’s Bar was a place back home where we all went to drink after work.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:52:20 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Fiji Hill
SI units are the International System of Units. Basically after WWII, the science community got tired of all the different systems of measurement, including different nations using different metric systems. So, they consolidated everything so that moles, meters, degrees K, etc all meant the same thing for everybody.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:54:15 PM PDT
by
Ophiucus
To: Fiji Hill
Actually, the bar (and millibar) arent part of the metric system. The pascal is the metric unit of pressure. One bar is supposed to be equivalent to atmospheric pressure at sea level (one atmosphere). In 1982, though, the
IUPAC standardized the bar at 100 kilopascals.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:56:13 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: ClearCase_guy
The weather rock has proven to be a reliable weather indicator.
If the rock is wet, it’s raining.
If the rock is swinging, the wind is blowing.
If the rock casts a shadow, the sun is shining.
If the rock does not cast a shadow and is not wet, the sky is cloudy.
If the rock is not visible, it is foggy.
If the rock is white, it is snowing.
If the rock is coated with ice, there is a frost.
If the ice is thick, it’s a heavy frost.
If the rock is bouncing, there is an earthquake.
If the rock is under water, there is a flood.
If the rock is warm, it is sunny.
If the rock is missing, there was a tornado.
If the rock is wet and swinging violently, there is a hurricane.
If the rock has white splats on it, watch out for birds.
To: Ophiucus
Just because someone calls something “international” doesn’t necessarily make it so. In the USA, it’s called the metric system.
And frankly, the bar is not “SI”; it’s actually considered deprecated by those scientists.
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posted on
03/14/2014 6:57:47 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: PROCON
BTW, its 1056 millibars here today, whatever that means
How much is that in bit coin
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posted on
03/14/2014 7:00:18 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi MomÂ… I was refereeing to Obama)
To: GreyFriar
LOL, and I’m raising a beer in your honor right now, my FRiend. :-)
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posted on
03/14/2014 7:00:50 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Those who are capable of Tyranny are capable of Deceit to sustain it.)
To: stars & stripes forever
My daughter -- who was old enough to know better -- was baffled by the weather rock. She read the instructions very carefully and honestly looked forward to see if the rock could effectively carry out its appointed tasks.
Sigh.
She's in college now, so she eventually turned out OK.
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